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Letters Pate/nt No. 93,453, dated August 10, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANE .ANZD STU'BBLE-SHAVER.

The Schedulereferred to in these Letters Patent and making pari: of the same.

vTo all whom tt may concern l v Be it known that I, P. G. KLEDIPETER, of Plaquemine, in the parish of Iberville, and State of Louisiana, have invented a new .and improved CanefStnbble Shaver; andl d0 hereby declare 'that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,-forrning part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved Vcane-stubble shaver.

Figure 2 is a front view of the same.

Similar letters of lreference indicate corresponding parts. v

This invention has for its object to shave the stub.- hles of sugar-cane, so as to facilitate cultivation ofthe soil, and to enable the young sprouts from the old stubbles to grow at once.

The invention consists in the use of a horizontal knife, which is attached to the landside of an ordinary plow to out the stubbles', while the plow is forced through the ground.

The invention also consists -inattaching a rake to the outer end of thepknifavfor raking the cut stubbles into the furrow.

A, inthe drawing,.represents a metallic blade of suitable size, projecting vfrom one side of 'a vertical shank or bar,B, which is, by suitable clasps, a, and

hooks or. screw-bolts, b, or both, fastened to the landsde of a plow and its beam, as is indicated in g. 1.

The front edge of the blade A is sharpened, to form va cutter for the purpose of shaving the stubbles of cut cane close above the ground.

The cultivation ofthe soil is thereby facilitated, as

the cut stubbles are worked under the ground to rot in the same, and as the sprouts of the cane are enabled to grow without hindrance.

The cutter A is set somewhat higher than the lower edge of the mould-board, as shown.

A bar, D, may beattached to the outer end of the cutter A, to project obliquely backward from the same. On itare formedl tines c c, which serve, as the device is moved along, to rake the cut stubbles into the furrow. l

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cane-stubble shaver, consisting of thehorizontal knife A, and vertical shank B, to be attached to the laudside of a plow, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

2. The rake D, attached to the outer end'of the stubble-shaver, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and describe( P. G. KLEINPETER.

Titnesses J STUHITNEY, J OHN HARCOT. 

